The Latest Breaking News from NCA

'Deli mob' enforcer charged £10,000 to blind people

Crime boss ordered enforcer to ' double dose' and ' cook' victims with acid

Liverpool Echo · May 27, 2022

Cocaine smuggler who used luxury yacht for £160million narcos plot jailed for 18 years

Andrew Cole was involved in the planning of the huge cocaine smuggling operation, which saw two tonnes of the class A drug trafficked into the UK.

Daily Record · May 26, 2022

Neil Basu’s bid for crime agency top job ends after alleged No 10 intervention

Government has now effectively deterred senior Met officer from two of highest roles in law enforcement

The Guardian - UK · May 26, 2022

50ft yacht seized in Welsh waters with £60m of smuggled cocaine up for auction

The yacht was seized half a mile off the Welsh coast in 2019 and has remained moored in Wales

Wales Online · May 24, 2022

'Critical incidents' declared at Oldham, Bury and Rochdale hospitals amid major IT failure

Hospital bosses are have declared critical incidents at the Royal Oldham Hospital, Bury's Fairfield General and Rochdale Infirmary

Manchester Evening News · May 24, 2022

Suspected gang boss arrested after 'migrant' drug farms raided as police hunt man with links to Manchester

Detectives have detained the suspected boss of an OCG that use trafficked Albanian nationals to farm cannabis

Manchester Evening News · May 24, 2022

Boris Johnson faces backlash after pushing former Met chief for NCA role

Lady Diana Brittan and ex-MP Harvey Proctor say Lord Hogan-Howe, who oversaw Operation Midland, should be ruled out

The Guardian - UK · May 23, 2022

Boris Johnson ‘backs former Met Police chief to take charge of National Crime Agency’

Hogan-Howe, who left the Met in 2016 with an estimated £5million pension pot, was made a life peer in 2017 and has since taken up a number of consultancy posts for various firms

Evening Standard · May 22, 2022

IT system issue causes 'disruption for patients at four hospitals'

The IT problems are causing 'disruption to staff and patients', according to one senior Greater Manchester NHS source

Manchester Evening News · May 20, 2022

VVS Laxman likely to coach India on Ireland tour

Head coach Rahul Dravid will be with the Test squad in England ahead of the series beginning with the one-off Test from July 1

The Hindu · May 18, 2022